Kenn Gerdes

22.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
153 papers, 17.0k citations indexed

About

Kenn Gerdes is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenn Gerdes has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 17.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Genetics, 104 papers in Molecular Biology and 65 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kenn Gerdes's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (127 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (65 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (52 papers). Kenn Gerdes is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (127 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (65 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (52 papers). Kenn Gerdes collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and United States. Kenn Gerdes's co-authors include Susanne K. Christensen, Etienne Maisonneuve, Rasmus Bugge Jensen, Kim Brint Pedersen, Søren Molin, Alexander Harms, Anders Løbner‐Olesen, Kristoffer Skovbo Winther, Gitte Ebersbach and Thomas Franch and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kenn Gerdes

153 papers receiving 16.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Prokaryotic toxin–antitoxin stress response loci

2005 860 citations Kenn Gerdes, Susanne K. Christensen et al. profile →
Mechanisms of bacterial persistence during stress and antibiotic exposure

2016 650 citations Alexander Harms, Etienne Maisonneuve et al. profile →
Recent functional insights into the role of (p)ppGpp in bacterial physiology

2015 587 citations Kenn Gerdes et al. profile →
Unique type of plasmid maintenance function: postsegregational killing of plasmid-free cells.

1986 539 citations Kenn Gerdes et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Bacterial Persisters

2014 476 citations Etienne Maisonneuve, Kenn Gerdes Cell profile →
Toxins, Targets, and Triggers: An Overview of Toxin-Antitoxin Biology

2018 452 citations Alexander Harms, Ditlev E. Brodersen et al. Molecular Cell profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenn Gerdes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kenn Gerdes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kenn Gerdes based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kenn Gerdes. Kenn Gerdes is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Structural basis for kinase inhibition in the tripartite E. coli HipBST toxin–antitoxin system 2023 ·eLife ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jeppe Lyngsø, (unknown), Jan Skov Pedersen, Kenn Gerdes, Michael A. Sørensen, Ditlev E. Brodersen	3
2	Proteome Dynamics during Antibiotic Persistence and Resuscitation 2021 ·mSystems ·(unknown), Fabio Lino Gratani, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nicolas Nalpas, Elsa Germain, Shilpa Elizabeth George, Christiane Wolz, Kenn Gerdes, Boris Maček	9
3	Phylogeny Reveals Novel HipA-Homologous Kinase Families and Toxin-Antitoxin Gene Organizations 2021 ·mBio ·Kenn Gerdes, (unknown), Ditlev E. Brodersen	16
4	Fatty acid starvation activates RelA by depleting lysine precursor pyruvate 2019 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Anurag Kumar Sinha, Kristoffer Skovbo Winther, Mohammad Roghanian, Kenn Gerdes	26
5	Toxin–antitoxin operon kacAT of Klebsiella pneumoniae is regulated by conditional cooperativity via a W-shaped KacA–KacT complex 2019 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Hongliang Qian, Hao Yu, Peifei Li, (unknown), Qingqing Yao, Cui Tai, Zixin Deng, Kenn Gerdes, Xinyi He, Jianhua Gan, Hong‐Yu Ou	19
6	(p)ppGpp Regulates a Bacterial Nucleosidase by an Allosteric Two-Domain Switch 2019 ·Molecular Cell ·Yong Everett Zhang, (unknown), Tobias Fuhrer, Uwe Sauer, Kenn Gerdes, Ditlev E. Brodersen	41
7	Toxins, Targets, and Triggers: An Overview of Toxin-Antitoxin Biology breakdown → 2018 ·Molecular Cell ·Alexander Harms, Ditlev E. Brodersen, Namiko Mitarai, Kenn Gerdes	452
8	The kinases HipA and HipA7 phosphorylate different substrate pools in Escherichia coli to promote multidrug tolerance 2018 ·Science Signaling ·(unknown), Elsa Germain, (unknown), (unknown), Kenn Gerdes, Boris Maček	54
9	Activation of the Stringent Response by Loading of RelA-tRNA Complexes at the Ribosomal A-Site 2018 ·Molecular Cell ·Kristoffer Skovbo Winther, Mohammad Roghanian, Kenn Gerdes	74
10	Prophages and Growth Dynamics Confound Experimental Results with Antibiotic-Tolerant Persister Cells 2017 ·mBio ·Alexander Harms, (unknown), Michael A. Sørensen, Szabolcs Semsey, Kenn Gerdes	159
11	Peptide‐nucleotide antibiotic Microcin C is a potent inducer of stringent response and persistence in both sensitive and producing cells 2017 ·Molecular Microbiology ·(unknown), Etienne Maisonneuve, Elsa Germain, Kenn Gerdes, Konstantin Severinov	18
12	Enteric virulence associated protein VapC inhibits translation by cleavage of initiator tRNA 2011 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kristoffer Skovbo Winther, Kenn Gerdes	212
13	Movement and equipositioning of plasmids by ParA filament disassembly 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Simon Ringgaard, Jeroen S. van Zon, Martin Howard, Kenn Gerdes	145
14	Bacterial mitosis: partitioning protein ParA oscillates in spiral‐shaped structures and positions plasmids at mid‐cell 2004 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Gitte Ebersbach, Kenn Gerdes	116
15	RelE toxins from Bacteria and Archaea cleave mRNAs on translating ribosomes, which are rescued by tmRNA 2003 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Susanne K. Christensen, Kenn Gerdes	286
16	The Bacterial Toxin RelE Displays Codon-Specific Cleavage of mRNAs in the Ribosomal A Site 2003 ·Cell ·Kim Brint Pedersen, Andrey V. Zavialov, Michael Y. Pavlov, Johan Elf, Kenn Gerdes, Måns Ehrenberg	449
17	A Mechanism for ParB-dependent Waves of ParA, a Protein Related to DNA Segregation during Cell Division in Prokaryotes 2003 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Axel Hunding, Gitte Ebersbach, Kenn Gerdes	18
18	Rapid induction and reversal of a bacteriostatic condition by controlled expression of toxins and antitoxins 2002 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Kim Brint Pedersen, Susanne K. Christensen, Kenn Gerdes	299
19	The double par locus of virulence factor pB171: DNA segregation is correlated with oscillation of ParA 2001 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Gitte Ebersbach, Kenn Gerdes	116
20	Mechanism of post-segregational killing by hok-homologue pnd of plasmid R483: Two translational control elements in the pnd mRNA 1995 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Allan K. Nielsen, Kenn Gerdes	13

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